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Quotes About Light

Your wide eyes are the only light I know from extinguished constellations.
~ Pablo Neruda
How you must have suffered getting accustomed to me, my savage, solitary soul, my name that sends them all running. So many times we have seen the morning star burn, kissing our eyes, and over our heads the grey light unwinds in turning fans.
~ Pablo Neruda
and everything burned in blue, everything a star
~ Pablo Neruda
You are the trembling of time, that passes between vertical light and darkened sky
~ Pablo Neruda
Sometimes a piece of sun burned like a coin in my hand.
~ Pablo Neruda
It is not so much light that falls over the world extended by your body its suffocating snow, as brightness, pouring itself out of you, as if you were burning inside. Under your skin the moon is alive.
~ Pablo Neruda
You came to my life with what you were bringing, made of light and bread and shadow I expected you, and Like this I need you, Like this I love you, and to those who want to hear tomorrow that which I will not tell them, let them read it here, and let them back off today because it is early for these arguments.
~ Pablo Neruda
I love you like the plant that does not bloom and carries in itself, hidden, the light of those flowers
~ Pablo Neruda
Oh, beloved, and there is nothing but shadows where you accompany me in your dreams and tell me the hour of light.
~ Pablo Neruda
Laugh at the night, at the day, at the moon, laugh at the twisted streets of the island, laugh at this clumsy boy who loves you, but when I open my eyes and close them, when my steps go, when my steps return, deny me bread, air, light, spring, but never your laughter for I would die.
~ Pablo Neruda
Of so much moon were your hips to me, of all the sun your deep mouth and its delight, of so much burning light like honey in the shade
~ Pablo Neruda
Full woman, fleshly apple, hot moon, thick smell of seaweed, crushed mud and light, what obscure brilliance opens between your columns? What ancient night does a man touch with his senses? Loving is a journey with water and with stars, with smothered air and abrupt storms of flour: loving is a clash of lightning-bolts and two bodies defeated by a single drop of honey.
~ Pablo Neruda
Sometimes a piece of the sun burned like a coin between my hands.
~ Pablo Neruda
I know you exist not just because your eyes fly and give light to things like an open window
~ Pablo Neruda
Sólo con una ardiente paciencia conquistaremos la espléndida ciudad que dará luz, justicia y dignidad a todos los hombres. Así la poesía no habrá cantado en vano.
~ Pablo Neruda
How do the oranges divide up sunlight in the orange tree?
~ Pablo Neruda
Es la hora, amor mío, de apartar esta rosa sombría, cerrar las estrellas, enterrar la ceniza en la tierra: y en la insurrección de la luz, despertar con los que despertaron o seguir en el sueño alcanzando la otra orilla del mar que no tiene otra orilla.
~ Pablo Neruda
If each day falls inside each night, There exists a well where clarity is imprisoned. We need to sit on the rim of the well of darkness and fish for fallen light, with patience. "Si cada día cae/If each day falls EI MAR Y LAS CAMPANAS. The Sea and The Bells.
~ Pablo Neruda
I love you between shadow and soul. I love you as the plant that hasn't bloomed yet, and carries hidden within itself the light of flowers. I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. Because of you, the dense fragrance that rises from the earth lives in my body, rioting with hunger for the eternity of our victorious kisses.
~ Pablo Neruda
her eyes were the color of faraway love her arms were matching topazes her lips moved soundlessly in the coral light and ultimately, she left by the door..
~ Pablo Neruda
I searched, but no one else had your rhythms, your light, the shady day you brought from the forest; Nobody had your tiny ears.
~ Pablo Neruda
It's today: all of yesterday was falling between fingers of light and sleepy eyes
~ Pablo Neruda
Sol de Mar Yo encontre en Isla Negra un dia, un sol acostado en la arena, un sol centrifugo y central cubierto de dedos de oro y ventosas como alfileres. Recogi el sol enarenado y levantandolo a la luz lo compare con el del cielo. No se miraron, ni se vieron.
~ Pablo Neruda
The light wraps you in its mortal flame. Abstracted pale mourner, standing that way Against the old propellers of the twilight That revolves around you. Speechless, my friend, Alone in the loneliness of this hour of the dead And filled with the lives of fire, Pure heir of the ruined day.
~ Pablo Neruda